Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-10-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Iowa own and manage farms. Six
more have stock farms and twenty
dairy farms.
--Smuggled goods have been re-
peatedly found in ladies' bustles lately
by the inspectors at the New York
Custom House.
An Arkansas editor recently notI-
fed his readers that ''aAy kind OF
grub" would be received in payment
of subscriptions
One million bushels of edible
oysters, it is estimated, were caught in
the waters of Long Island Sound dur
ing the past year.
"A woman, Mrs. Bittenbender, is
contesting for seat on the Supreme
Bench of Nebraska. She is said to be
the only female lawyer in the State.
Two anchors have been picked up
off Chatham. Massachusetts, which, It
is thought. may have belonged to a
Dutch man-of-war wrecked one hund-
red years ago.
In Belgium, it Is stated, there ars
80, 900 people who drink each at least
brandy per day, and 10O,0 who drink
half that quantity.
An Oconee (Ga. man has a gander
a
Will sound the alarm when a stranger
enters the yard, and attacks the in
truder with wings and beak.
"A very strange freak of nature is
reported from Harrison township.
Jewell county, Kansas. Mrs. B. I.
Davis, lady 81 years old, had all her
teeth extracted three months ago, and
now nature Is furnishing her with
third set.
"A "female ghost,'' which several
reputable citizens of the place claim to
have seen at short range, has Dawson,
Georgia, stirred with excitement. The
spoOk Is said to vanish when anyone
goes to lay bands on it.
1t is pretty well known how very
particular the Prince of Wales IS as TO
his personal appearance, and that 1t Is a
source OF great annoyance to him that
no restorative has yet been found that
can fall back into growth, il not an
abundant crop, at least an aftermath of
! hair.
A birds head dinner was a unique
entertainment in Paris. Each guest
had a coiffure representing the head
| Of bird, an owl, turtle dove and
other birds. The most elegant was
| that of a peacock, with crest, repre-
]
eralds and sapphiTes.
| Not long ago the secretary OF a
| New York club received an application
| from a pomposs member for permission
to hang up his family tree in the Ii
brary, he graciously proposing to
present it to the club. The secretary
| took it upon himself to decline the
kind offer.
The continued carelessness of an
/ Iowa man has got him into trouble at
last. his first two wives lost their
I lives by the accidental discharge of
his revolver and he was not molested In
either case, but now that his third wife
has followed the other two in the same
way he has been arrested on the charge
of killing her.
Several years ago the Medical As
sociation, of Boston. presented the I'm
| lVerslty Of Toxic, Japan, with a num-
ber of its duplicate volumes. The gift
was acknowledged at the time, and
again lately by the presentation of a
collection of 2lO Japanese medical
! works. The books are in Chinese
characters, the Japanese having no
| printed alphabet,
"A farmer at Chelsea, Vermont.
| las had a novel and unpleasant expert
! ence. Four months ago his hair and
| whiSkerS began to come out, and in a
month his head was as bald as "A babe's.
| His eyebrows and eyelashes also came
! OFF, and there seems little prospect of
new growth. Eight years ago, how
ever, his hair came off in the same
| way, but his whlskeT5 and eyebrows
| and eyelashes remained.
Not long ago q well-knOWn artist
sent TO q lady whom he had met several
times one Of his best pictures, hand
somely framed, as a souvenir gift. The
next day he received a note from uhe
lady, in which she thanked him for
the picture, but begged to return the
frame, as she made it a rule never to
accept anything valuable as a gift
| from gentleman.
At funeral recently at
| Colona, Iowa, 1t was noticed that the
DEAD was covered with perspiration,
| and, although wiped away by the un-
dertaker, large drops of moisture soon
gathered again. The body was buried.
however, and now many OF the resi-
dents OF the town assert the belief that
the supposed dead man was buried
alive.
Mrs. Nancy Baker, OF Westfeld,
New Jersey, who is reputed TO be 90
| years OF age, hired Il man to NOW the
grass upon her farm recently, and,
! alter the man had finished, she went to
look at the job and found he had not
cut 1t close enough TO the fence, Ieav-
| ing considerable good grass standing.
| The story runs that she obtained "A
scythe, and, swinging 1t with a yIgor
and precision that caused the neigh
bors TO gaze upon Ler in astonishment.
cut the grass close TO the fence and did
| IL well.
There has not been a bank failure
in China for 900 years. During the
reign of the wise Emperor Hi Flung
an edict was issued that upon the fall
ure of bank the heads of the PresI-
dent, Cashier, AID Directors should be
struck off and piled up In a corner with
the assets. This simple but earnest
edlct has never been repealed, and
Chinese bank stock has continued to
be above both par and reprOach.
"A stone coffin, containing bones,
was discovered b. some workInsn who
were building 4 drain IN a mansion In
Exeter, England. Further exploration
revealed more bones in a stone-wal1ed
grave lying in the immediate neigh-
borhOod, some tiles, the remains OF A
leaden chalice and a coin. u Is thought
that the workmen have brought TO
light the site of ths old Priory Chapel
of st. Andrew, belonging 10 the Bene-
dictine Order, The Priory was founded
by the Courtenay family, aud passed
a. the time OF the dissolution OF the
monasteries INTO the hands of the Rus
sells, by whom it appears 10 have been
demolished The remains in the coffin
are considered to be those of one of the
Courtenays. The coffin itself the pO-
Rition OF winch Is supposed to mark the
side OF the high alJaT, seems TO be one
of the thirteenth century work. IL rs
10 inches deep inside and feel out
side measurement, 2 feet . inches
wide at the head, and lS inches at
the foot, and of some material like
Portland stone, The cover, made of
one solid block, was cemented down.